New Hampshire Data Privacy & Data Broker Removal

New Hampshire has a comprehensive privacy law that gives you the right to access, delete, and control your personal data. Here is how those rights work in practice and how to remove yourself from data brokers.

Your rights in New Hampshire

New Hampshire residents are protected by the New Hampshire Privacy Act (NHPA) / SB 255.

• Right to access and know. Request a copy of the personal information a company holds about you.
• Right to correct. Ask a company to fix inaccurate personal information.
• Right to delete. Ask a company to delete your personal information.
• Right to data portability. Get your data in a portable format you can take elsewhere.
• Right to opt out of sale. Tell a company to stop selling your personal information.
• Right to opt out of targeted advertising. Stop ads aimed at you based on your personal data.
• Right to opt out of profiling. Stop companies from building a behavioral profile of you.
• Right to appeal. Challenge a company's decision to deny your privacy request.

Does this cover the company that has my data?

The law covers a company if, over a year, it controls or processes the personal data of at least 35,000 New Hampshire residents (not counting data used only to complete a payment), or at least 10,000 residents while making more than 25 percent of its revenue from selling personal data. Most companies that collect or sell personal data here fall under it.

How to remove yourself from data brokers in New Hampshire

Your state law gives you the right to request deletion, but exercising it across every site that holds your data takes real effort. Here are the most effective steps, in order.

1. Enable Global Privacy Control

Global Privacy Control is a free browser setting that automatically tells every website you visit not to sell or share your data. It takes about two minutes to enable and then works in the background. New Hampshire law requires covered businesses to honor it, so this is not just a request. It carries legal weight.

2. Submit direct opt-out requests

You can also file requests directly. Look for the "Do not sell my personal information" link in a company's website footer; most major brokers have one. You can send formal access, deletion, or correction requests through each company's privacy policy page.

Under New Hampshire's law, covered companies must respond within the statutory deadline. If they don't, you have grounds to file a complaint with the New Hampshire Attorney General.

3. Automate ongoing removal

Even after you finish every step above, brokers pull your information back in from public records, data-sharing networks, and commercial databases. Within a few months, your profiles reappear. Staying removed is not a one-time task. It is ongoing work that is hard to keep up with by hand.

New Hampshire's data broker law: what it means for you

New Hampshire does not have a dedicated data-broker registry. Most national data brokers are registered in California and honor opt-out requests from residents of any state, but without a New Hampshire law requiring it, you have little recourse if a broker ignores your request. We don't work from a fixed list of sites. Our scan searches the open internet for wherever your information shows up, then Delist files removals across those sites in one place.

Other privacy protections in New Hampshire

Beyond the comprehensive privacy law, New Hampshire has additional protections that may apply to you:

• Address Confidentiality Program. Run by the New Hampshire Department of Justice, it gives survivors of domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault a substitute address to use in place of their real one.
• Biometric data. New Hampshire has no standalone biometric-privacy statute, but biometric information counts as sensitive data under the privacy law, so a company needs your consent to collect it.

How to file a privacy complaint in New Hampshire

File with the New Hampshire Department of Justice, Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau, at doj.nh.gov/consumer.

Most state agencies enforce privacy laws in the aggregate. They investigate patterns of violations rather than resolving individual disputes. Filing a complaint still matters: it creates a record that helps trigger enforcement.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• gencourt.state.nh.us
• doj.nh.gov
• huschblackwell.com